The starting point of my photo series VERTIGINOUS, which is produced in an analogous way with long time exposures of fifteen minutes to over one hour on film, was already in 1997 in Berlin with the work "Stuttering Moon". In the summer of 2008 I took a longer stay in the Austrian Alps as an opportunity to continue this series. As in other series, for example "Transfiguration", the position of the individual in the world occupies me here. In the photo series VERTIGINOUS I have implemented this in the proverbial sense. If you look at the stars or the moon at night for an hour, the earth seems to be a fixed point of view and the stars in the sky look small and fragile. If I direct my camera to this very sky and record what happens during that time, this impression suddenly shifts. Not those up there are moving, but me, or rather the ground under my feet is in constant motion, you could almost say, in a frantic move. Hence the title of the series "Vertiginous", which means as much as dizzying.My work was created in places where I lived and worked for a longer time - the latest one "Am Himmelreich", located in the Vienna district where I grew up.

"Once before, when camping on a mountaintop with some friends when I was ten or eleven, I had seen stars in such numbers that they filled the sky. It almost seemed as if the sky would break under the weight of all those things and come tumbling down. Never had I seen such an amazing skyful of stars. […] The longer I watched, though, the more nervous it made me. There were simply too many stars, and the sky was too vast and deep. A huge, overpowering foreign object, it surrounded me, enveloped me, and made me feel almost dizzy. Until that moment, I had always thought that the earth on which I stood was a solid object that would last for ever. Or rather, I had never thought about such a thing at all. I had simply taken it for granted.”